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Can someone give me an easy rundown of how Sword Skills work? Also no spoilers please.

Pretty basic really. Each sword skill has an activation motion that the player needs to do that basically tells the system "hey i'm doing super sword attack #5" system then takes over control and does the attack for the player. It's what Kirito was showing Klein in the first episode, to make sure he uses the proper motion or else the attack won't work and you'll just be swinging blindly, and that does very badly.

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Pretty basic really. Each sword skill has an activation motion that the player needs to do that basically tells the system "hey i'm doing super sword attack #5" system then takes over control and does the attack for the player. It's what Kirito was showing Klein in the first episode, to make sure he uses the proper motion or else the attack won't work and you'll just be swinging blindly, and that does very badly.

Just reading the novel, (I'm a terrible reader; I miss out / forget a lot of tiny details.)

Spoiler for About the derogatory title of Kirito, vol1ch14 LN & manga:

What's so wrong about being a beta tester? In the manga, it said beta + cheater = beater. I get cheating is looked down upon. But in the LN, his guild-mate commits suicide because he revealed he's a beta-tester? What is going on? I am so confused. Is it just terrible translation? @~@

Just reading the novel, (I'm a terrible reader; I miss out / forget a lot of tiny details.)

Spoiler for About the derogatory title of Kirito, vol1ch14 LN & manga:

What's so wrong about being a beta tester? In the manga, it said beta + cheater = beater. I get cheating is looked down upon. But in the LN, his guild-mate commits suicide because he revealed he's a beta-tester? What is going on? I am so confused. Is it just terrible translation? @~@

Just reading the novel, (I'm a terrible reader; I miss out / forget a lot of tiny details.)

Spoiler for About the derogatory title of Kirito, vol1ch14 LN & manga:

What's so wrong about being a beta tester? In the manga, it said beta + cheater = beater. I get cheating is looked down upon. But in the LN, his guild-mate commits suicide because he revealed he's a beta-tester? What is going on? I am so confused. Is it just terrible translation? @~@

'I revealed my real level and that I had been a beta tester. '

Regards this, Arphah got most of it right. Spoiler filled Elaboration as follows:

Spoiler for Meaning behind Beater:

There's a lot of hate towards the Beta Testers after the first month, in which 2000 people die. The common SAO player blames Beta Testers for farming the good EXP and loot drops, and not helping other players, and for being assholes who couldn't see that the game was flawed. In fact, one player is ready to lead a jihad against all Beta Testers for their supposed crimes.

Relatively speaking, however, casualties among beta testers are higher than normal players.

At the end of a large battle, Kirito, after getting Last Attack on the boss, tells the jihad player not to lump him with other beta testers, who were just lucky to get into the game, and that he's a Beater (Beta + Cheater), someone who's totally on a different level from your ordinary Beta tester, most of whom were novices at MMOs. (Irony: he was an MMO novice the same. )

He deliberately sets himself out to be hated, so that the few friends he has who are Beta Testers won't be hunted down by vengeful jihadis.

After this, Betas are split into Ordinary Beta Testers, normal people who just had some advance knowledge, and Beaters, Beta Tester Cheaters who use their knowledge to exploit the system and screw over everyone else. Betas aren't too bad off, but Beaters are shunned.

Also, if he'd been honest from the start, Black Cats of the Full Moon wouldn't have been in that position. His concealment of that fact led to their demise from biting off more than they could chew.

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The first novel tends to gloss over stuff that happened between the first day and the 75th Floor -- there are epic events that could be the basis for a book on their own that get tossed off in a few lines (the crusade against the Laughing Coffins, the 25th and 50th Floor Boss Fights, etc.). Kawahara's been going back and filling in the details with side stories -- Aria explains exactly why the Beaters became hated, and Red Nosed Reindeer shows how Kirito's lying screwed the Black Cats. These should be animated in the next couple episodes.

Going to read SAO Side Stories.
Anybody, can tell me in which order I shoild read them?(should i go according to floors, or just how they have been released?)
If possible, could you give me a chronical order of it, Baka-Tsukis is just so confusing

Going to read SAO Side Stories.
Anybody, can tell me in which order I shoild read them?(should i go according to floors, or just how they have been released?)
If possible, could you give me a chronical order of it, Baka-Tsukis is just so confusing

All side story is quite indenpendent, you won't miss much read any of them first.
If you want to follow chronical order, there is a date follow every sidestory title, (sometime Kirito go to lower floor later on to do his things).

If you really want to follow chonical order I would advise you read "First Day" and "Aria on starless night" first before going with volumn 2.

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well, I already read until Volume 5 Chapter 1 Part 2, but, as SAO Episode 2 came out and it covert ''Aria on the starless night'', I just wanted to read it for more info and maybe reading the others to, as the Anime is going in the chronical order

So in MMOs it's common to re-fight, or "farm" a boss for some purpose, usually loot, so let's say a group of players want to re-fight the boss of floor 1 from ep 2, for loot, would this possible?, and if yes is there a limit to how many times players could do this?

Unrelated Question are "rare loot" items, like the cloak Kirito got, do they have special stats not normally found on items, or do they simply offer more stats than other items might offer? Also are such items only available from bosses, or are there chances to find items of that quality at much lower rates on other enemies?

So in MMOs it's common to re-fight, or "farm" a boss for some purpose, usually loot, so let's say a group of players want to re-fight the boss of floor 1 from ep 2, for loot, would this possible?, and if yes is there a limit to how many times players could do this?

As far as we know, once a floor boss is gone, it's gone forever.

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Unrelated Question are "rare loot" items, like the cloak Kirito got, do they have special stats not normally found on items, or do they simply offer more stats than other items might offer?

Who knows? It's not even entirely clear how stats work in SAO.

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Also are such items only available from bosses, or are there chances to find items of that quality at much lower rates on other enemies?

Kirito will eventually leave that coat behind and get a better one. And I don't think all his coats come from floor boss drops. In fact, one of them was crafted.